#common

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

Truth has two beautiful daughters; their names are skepticism and faith. Skepticism to examine the past to make sure it was not full of lies, and faith to believe that the future won't be full of them also. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#choices #commonsense #decisions #faith #investigation

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #bond #bonds #common #conversations

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#common sense #courage #good #good taste #great

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#called #commonly #cynicism #got #observation

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#common sense #courage #good #good taste #great

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. ↗

— Paul Simon

#common #disappears #even #life #music

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#cold #common #detect #disability #disease